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Originally Posted by CMIII

Actually Sharks commonly enter areas where swimmers are. Great Whites typically are drawn to where seals are and seal populations tend to inhabit areas near readily availible food sorces which are typically provided by Humans. Also many shark species follow fishing boats so encounters are more likely then you think. Whats scarier the events based on imagination or Reality

Can we stop with the shark facts? Obviously some sharks come close to shore, otherwise shark attacks wouldn't be a thing. The big thing with Jaws is how huge it was, yes some prehistoric sharks were larger than Bruce but they were all large ocean predators and stayed in deep waters similar to whales. The same reason that whales get beached can apply to sharks and the bigger a fish is the harder time it has to fight current and return to sea. With less water the fins create less displacement which is also fought by moving currents, a large fish's best chance of returning home is getting caught in a drift current carrying out to sea. Crocodiles eat more people per year, but we don't really care because that's in Africa and not an immediate danger to us.
Imagination is scarier I guess. In reality serial killers are usually going after people they knew, and even then they're just people who eventually get caught. In Imagination Land serial killers have super powers and are seemingly unstoppable. In reality getting killed/eaten by animals is an uncommon phenomenon, in Imagination Land every animal is out to get humanity and they're all giant, bugs too so carry extra Raid. In reality dead people are dead, but in Imagination Land they can come back as a zombie or be like a vampire or something. Obviously reality is way more likely to happen, but fear itself is a product of our imagination running wild. We rightly fear some things in reality because our imagination wonders "what if that happened to me?", fear is a safety lock we fashion to save ourselves from predicted danger.